Printing Bioinks with Technologically Relevant Applications

Metal-based Inkjet Inks for Printed Electronics

“…In addition to conventional graphic applications, inkjet printing has been adapted for patterning various functional materials such as organic light emitting diodes (OLED) [9], transistors, integrated circuits, conducting polymer devices, structural polymers and ceramics [7], biomaterials, and even printed scaffolds for growth of living tissues [7,10], as well as for building complicated 3D objects [11] and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) [12]. Applied to printed electronics, inkjet printing enables patterning with high resolution: line and space dimensions can be as small as 10-20 μm, that is at least five times better than the current resolution of screen printing [13,14].…”